BRICOLA BENT Desk

The Bricola Bent Desk is composed of two planks of Venetian Briccola oak, each edge sculpted by salt, tides, and decades submerged in lagoon currents. These timbers — once part of Venice’s underwater architecture — bear the traces of molluscs and waterborne time.
Flanking the wood, transparent resin borders trace rivers of glass — echoes of the water that once embraced the planks, now transformed into guardians of the wood’s form. These resin edges seal and protect the fragile boundaries shaped by nature, ensuring the preservation of a moment in flux made eternal.
In the corners, the woodgrain aligns seamlessly, as though the desk were carved from a single bent piece. Through a refined process, the resin too appears as one continuous, unbroken layer—no visible seams between horizontal and vertical planes, honoring the unity of the form.
Below, a metaphysical steel slab supports the composition — an austere element that lifts the desk, giving it a subtle suspension in space. Together, the materials speak of convergence: wood shaped by water and time, resin that cements translucence, and steel that holds the ephemeral steady.
The Bricola Bent Desk is at once functional and poetical: the memory of Venice flows within its edges, captured in resin and sustained by steel. It is a singular moment, crystallized.